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  • Then she lowered the megaphone and beckoned Harry over to her.   (source)
    beckoned = called -- typically to come nearer by using a hand gesture or a nod
  • "Lily," Mother said, beckoning to the little girl, "Go on now and get into your nightclothes."   (source)
    beckoning = signaling (by using a hand gesture or a nod)
  • As we crossed the school lawn, Stacey beckoned Christopher-John, Little Man, and me aside.   (source)
    beckoned = called (to come by using a hand gesture or a nod)
  • "Let's get there and see which island beckons us" was our motto.   (source)
    beckons = calls (figuratively by being desirable)
  • But just as he was leaving, Audrius beckoned.   (source)
    beckoned = called (to come nearer by using a hand gesture or a nod)
  • The kapo beckons Gita with her finger.   (source)
    beckons = calls (to come nearer by using a hand gesture)
  • Inns and cafes beckoned from among stands of tall trees.   (source)
    beckoned = called (figuratively, by being desirable)
  • Come summer, the spirit turns, and the seashore beckons with a song of the waves, and people gather for carousels and Ferris wheels and sweet iced drinks and cotton candy.   (source)
    beckons = calls (figuratively by being desirable)
  • The second gate opened, and the exit beckoned.   (source)
    beckoned = called (figuratively, by leading to a desired goal)
  • Ralph was on his third Sunkist Orange when he stopped his stream of confessions, leaned forward, and beckoned us closer.   (source)
    beckoned = called (to come nearer by using a hand gesture or a nod)
  • When Christina catches my eye, she beckons to me, smiling, so my mother and I cross the Pit floor.   (source)
    beckons = calls (to come nearer by using a hand gesture or a nod)
  • Aris opens a door and beckons for Thomas to follow him.   (source)
    beckons = calls (to follow by using a hand gesture or a nod)
  • Home, where the backyard always beckoned, always safe and protected by the house and the barn and the woods.   (source)
    beckoned = called (figuratively, by being desirable)
  • Charles Wallace walked through it, beckoned to Meg and Calvin, and they followed.   (source)
    beckoned = called (to follow by using a hand gesture or a nod)
  • An afternoon of reading on the balcony beckoned.   (source)
    beckoned = called (figuratively, by being desirable)
  • I moved faster when I saw Jem far ahead beckoning in the moonlight.   (source)
    beckoning = called (to come by using a hand gesture or a nod)
  • Although I was walking straight toward his front door he beckoned me on several times, and he never took his eyes from me, as though it was they which held me to my course.   (source)
  • The first people who saw him ran away, but he stood beckoning to them.   (source)
    beckoning = calling (to come nearer by using a hand gesture or a nod)
  • After a moment, he turns back around and gestures, beckoning me inside.   (source)
    beckoning = calling (to come by using a hand gesture or a nod)
  • He was eager, impatient, beckoning, so that Roger went to him.   (source)
    beckoning = called (to come by using a hand gesture or a nod)
  • He beckoned our neighbor over and handed Mom to him.   (source)
  • All turn to see as he beckons in Mary Warren with Proctor.   (source)
    beckons = calls (to come by using a hand gesture or a nod)
  • This morning I was in for a nasty surprise: after breakfast Peter beckoned me upstairs.   (source)
    beckoned = called (to come by using a hand gesture or a nod)
  • A few moments later, Father came back into the room and beckoned to Mother.   (source)
    beckoned = called (to come nearer by using a hand gesture or a nod)
  • Cops gestured; cops whistled and beckoned.   (source)
  • After a while he beckoned me over with one of his long arms.   (source)
    beckoned = called (to come)
  • She grinned and beckoned me over the wall when she saw me standing there.   (source)
    beckoned = called (to come nearer by using a hand gesture or a nod)
  • They saw us, and one guy beckoned for me to get up.   (source)
    beckoned = signaled (by using a hand gesture or a nod)
  • She beckoned to a waitress and asked for more coffee.   (source)
    beckoned = called (to come by using a hand gesture or a nod)
  • Where the worm had passed there remained that tantalizing gap. It flowed bitterly endless before them, beckoning beneath its horizontal collapse of skyline.   (source)
    beckoning = calling (figuratively, by being desirable)
  • 'Ssshh!' whispered Grandpa Joe, and he beckoned Charlie to come closer.   (source)
    beckoned = called (to come nearer by using a hand gesture or a nod)
  • They did not want to follow when he beckoned, but reluctantly, they followed Daagoo into the night for what seemed a long time.   (source)
    beckoned = called (to follow by using a hand gesture or a nod)
  • Instead, he beckons me to follow him to a weed-choked backstreet nearby.   (source)
    beckons = calls (to follow by using a hand gesture or a nod)
  • I could see my book sort of beckoning to me, saying, "Come and read me, come and read me, you know you want to."   (source)
    beckoning = calling
  • The two women step out, beckoning to the girls to follow them.   (source)
    beckoning = calling (to follow by using a hand gesture or a nod)
  • Lestat sat down and beckoned her to sit in his lap.   (source)
    beckoned = called (to come by using a hand gesture or a nod)
  • She beckoned to him longingly, with a husky laugh.   (source)
    beckoned = called (to come nearer by using a hand gesture or a nod)
  • Beside them stood four white men and as we came down the trail, one of the men beckoned us to walk faster.   (source)
    beckoned = signaled (by using a hand gesture or a nod)
  • I take a step back, my warm bed beckoning, when I think of something to say.   (source)
    beckoning = calling (figuratively, by being desirable)
  • Too often in that wind, in that fog, she'd heard her name called—a beckoning she refused to answer.   (source)
    beckoning = call
  • I looked back over my shoulder, and there was Joe and Ned on the other bank beckoning for me to come back to them.   (source)
    beckoning = calling (to come by using a hand gesture or a nod)
  • They did not speak to their passenger or to each other, and when one of them beckoned to him to follow, Jan realized something that he should have thought of before.   (source)
    beckoned = called (to follow by using a hand gesture or a nod)
  • Riff steps forward and beckons to his girl, Velma.   (source)
    beckons = calls (to come nearer by using a hand gesture or a nod)
  • Ladies waved and beckoned with their fans, conversation opened up.   (source)
    beckoned = called (to come nearer by using a hand gesture)
  • In response to Davis' beckoning finger, a man detached himself from a nearby wall against which he was leaning and came up to them.   (source)
    beckoning = calling (to come by using a hand gesture)
  • Beckoning to a fair-haired, ruddy young man who happened to be passing at the moment.   (source)
    beckoning = calling (to come nearer by using a hand gesture or a nod)
  • The cook with his carroty head is begging us to eat; he beckons with his ladle to every one that passes, and spoons him out a great dollop.   (source)
    beckons = calls (to come nearer by using a hand gesture or a nod)
  • "Well, bring in the bride," said Gerald, and Pork, turning, beckoned into the hall to his wife, newly arrived from the Wilkes plantation to become part of the household of Tara.   (source)
    beckoned = called (to come by using a hand gesture or a nod)
  • ...he saw the men between himself and the table part and become a lane of grim faces, at the end of which he saw the justice, a shabby, collarless, graying man in spectacles, beckoning him.   (source)
    beckoning = calling (to come nearer by using a hand gesture or a nod)
  • Then Van Helsing beckoned to me, and we went gently out of the room.   (source)
    beckoned = called (to come by using a hand gesture or a nod)
  • He slowly made out that the driver, a young man in coffee-colored loose motor coat and hectic checked cap and intense neckwear, was Clif Clawson, and that Clif was beckoning.   (source)
    beckoning = calling (to come nearer by using a hand gesture or a nod)
  • The next afternoon Anne, bending over her patchwork at the kitchen window, happened to glance out and beheld Diana down by the Dryad's Bubble beckoning mysteriously.   (source)
    beckoning = calling (to come by using a hand gesture or a nod)
  • Two nights after the dawning of Peter's idea he beckoned the girls mysteriously at the twilight hour. 'Come hither with me,' he said, 'and bring the Roman Chariot.'   (source)
    beckoned = called (to come)
  • So peremptorily did these shades beckon him, that each day mankind and the claims of mankind slipped farther from him.   (source)
    beckon = call
  •   And with a great voice he said:
      When love beckons to you, follow him,
      Though his ways are hard and steep.   (source)
    beckons = calls
  • And every now and then he turns upon his companions, nodding, signaling, beckoning frantically—with every inch of him appealing, imploring, in behalf of the muses and their call.   (source)
    beckoning = signaling
  • A door opened, a white-haired secretarial head, but wearing a compassionate expression, appeared, and a skinny forefinger beckoned me into the sanctuary.   (source)
    beckoned = called (to come by using a hand gesture)
  • The crowd parted as the woman beckoned Mowgli to her hut, where there was a red lacquered bedstead, a great earthen grain chest with funny raised patterns on it, half a dozen copper cooking pots, an image of a Hindu god in a little alcove, and on the wall a real looking glass, such as they sell at the country fairs.   (source)
    beckoned = called (to come by using a hand gesture or a nod)
  • "I'll tell you," said the doctor, beckoning over Sludin's head to his coachman to bring the carriage round.   (source)
    beckoning = calling (to come by using a hand gesture or a nod)
  • But the visionary little maid on her part, beckoned likewise, as if to say—"This is a better place; come thou into the pool."   (source)
    beckoned = called (to come by using a hand gesture or a nod)
  • Genius, he held, is necessarily intolerant of fetters: on the one hand it must have the utmost play for its spontaneity; on the other, it may confidently await those messages from the universe which summon it to its peculiar work, only placing itself in an attitude of receptivity towards all sublime chances. ... The superadded circumstance which would evolve the genius had not yet come; the universe had not yet beckoned.   (source)
    beckoned = called
  • the soup ladle was walking up the table towards Alice's chair, and beckoning to her impatiently to get out of its way.   (source)
    beckoning = signaling
  • But calm, snow-white, and unvarying; still directing its fountain of feathers to the sky; still beckoning us on from before, the solitary jet would at times be descried.   (source)
    beckoning = calling (to follow)
  • He passed on and ascended the stairs, still holding my hand, and still beckoning the gentlemen to follow him, which they did.   (source)
    beckoning = calling (to follow by using a hand gesture or a nod)
  • "Ah, it is Jacopo," she said, "the captain of the yacht;" and she beckoned him towards them.   (source)
    beckoned = called (to come nearer by using a hand gesture or a nod)
  • "Little one!" repeated the captain; and he beckoned her to approach.   (source)
  • He nearly fainted; but the police inspector beckoned to him with his hand and said, "Come here, my dear sir."   (source)
    beckoned = called (to come nearer by using a hand gesture)
  • At the drinking-hole she will strip, and when he sees her beckoning he will embrace her and the game of the wilderness will surely reject him.   (source)
    beckoning = calling (figuratively, by being desirable)
  • From halfway across the Graveyard, Cleaver sees the smoke rising in the distance, beckoning him.†   (source)
  • The silver-haired man beckoned insistently.†   (source)
  • A throbbing whisper, "Pur-ple, pur-ple" (or was it "Tur-tle, Tur-tle"—whatever it was, it was scary), had beckoned her to the master bedroom on the second floor, and Maybe it was a dream.†   (source)
  • The open road beckoned.†   (source)
  • "Peter, if you're just going to go running every time she beckons, I don't see a point to any of this."†   (source)
  • Then she spun back around to face me, suspended and floating, smiling and holding out her hand, beckoning me to join her.†   (source)
  • He liked the word beckon; he would have said, "Adventure beckons," and would have gone off to prowl around the ship.†   (source)
  • His mouth stuffed full, he beckoned for Sticky to follow him.†   (source)
  • Her mother waved, beckoning her to return.†   (source)
  • I repeat it aloud, saying it to the world, which includes her: "A world lost, a world unsuspected beckons to new places and no whiteness (lost) is so white as the memory of whiteness."†   (source)
  • The truth was, he didn't expect the shopkeeper to have any information, so he was surprised when the man beckoned him toward a high shelf, where a book was leaning between a miniature sphinx carved out of sandstone and a basket of dried camel tongues.†   (source)
  • The tattered canvas beckoned as the only handhold on the otherwise smooth ship.†   (source)
  • And then I have another plan: I hold up the Polaroid camera, beckoning Lili with my finger.†   (source)
  • A THIN, SCOWLING MATRON in a white bonnet beckons with a bony finger.†   (source)
  • This time it was a subtle promise, a tantalizing hint of beauty still withheld, a beckoning to her spirit to follow she knew not where.†   (source)
  • When he was settled, the old man beckoned Catelyn forward and planted a papery dry kiss on her hand.†   (source)
  • Then he turned and beckoned to me.†   (source)
  • He felt her hands on his back, beckoning him.†   (source)
  • Ford beckoned to Prosser, who sadly, awkwardly, sat down in the mud.†   (source)
  • Snaking down the frozen expanse as if suspended from heaven, a single strand of ninemillimeter rope beckoned like Jack's beanstalk.†   (source)
  • Where the path emerged from the garden, a white marble statue stood on a pedestal: a naked goddess with an arm raised as if beckoning to the upstairs windows.†   (source)
  • Freedom beckoned.†   (source)
  • At the Quinto Patio, with its hot pink facade, a sign beckons: LADIES DANCE.†   (source)
  • Just Tony beckoning and then darkness and a few minutes later he had come back to real things with a few vague fragments of memory, like a jumbled dream.†   (source)
  • His face fell solemn as my father entered the living room, beckoning both of us to accompany him.†   (source)
  • I'll be back in a moment," Grandma said, sounding quite strange, beckoning me to remain there in the hallway by the door.†   (source)
  • They shook hands, then Horst left the smithy, beckoning to Eragon on the way out.†   (source)
  • I knew Nathan would be impatient for our return, so I beckoned to Leah.†   (source)
  • I whirled, expecting the worst, but instead saw Bruce Lunardi, hunched over, beckoning to us.†   (source)
  • Several of them watched Kassad with the cartoon-character sares of their pressure-expanded eyes and seemed to beckon him closer with random, languid movements of arms and hands.†   (source)
  • He held up one hand and beckoned me to come to him.†   (source)
  • The sky beckoned.†   (source)
  • His little love was a tree, of course, but not like Brother--old, wide and beckoning.†   (source)
  • It was several weeks later that Betsie opened the door from the hallway and beckoned to Father and me.†   (source)
  • "Hey," I said, beckoning him over.†   (source)
  • He held up his hand and limply beckoned me closer.†   (source)
  • The Brandy leans forward, beckoning Da5id toward her.†   (source)
  • On the other side of the interstate, a new multiplex theater with twenty-four screens beckons students to cut class.†   (source)
  • Here was a city unlike any I had ever seen, another world, and it beckoned like books, like the passage to knowledge and the ripening spring of a new world; the city pulled me in, and although it would be another 12 years before I ended up there, it never let me go.†   (source)
  • It seemed to welcome me, to beckon.†   (source)
  • Comrade Pillai beckoned to her and whispered in her ear.†   (source)
  • Scatty yanked her sword out of the ground and used it to beckon to Flamel and Josh.†   (source)
  • She smiled, passing him, beckoning with her eyes.†   (source)
  • However, before five minutes had passed, Mr Cardinal appeared in the doorway of the library and beckoned me over.†   (source)
  • I called in a muted voice, beckoning her over.†   (source)
  • The expression on his face is pure rage, but he beckons me to go to him.†   (source)
  • Her voice was a beckoning.†   (source)
  • Some holes are simply unplayable—the grass rolled up like carpeting, the farmhouse with its beckoning mousehole collapsed in on itself.†   (source)
  • "Come here, Glass," he said, beckoning her over.†   (source)
  • Marley was whining softly, beckoning me to put down the shovel and head inside.†   (source)
  • Twelve years later she would still see him this way, standing at the edge of the strawberry fields beneath the cover of the silent cedars, a handsome boy with one arm outstretched, beckoning her to come back.†   (source)
  • From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked.†   (source)
  • Momentarily there was a silence, but then an old woman with a turban who lived with her daughter and grandsons in the bedroom above Saeed and Nadia's, and whom Nadia had helped on more than one occasion to ascend the stairs, the old woman being regal in posture but also quite large, this old woman motioned to Nadia, beckoned Nadia to come stand at her side, to stand beside the garden chair on which she was sitting.†   (source)
  • She beckoned me with her hand; and when I neared her, she took me by the arms and spun me around.†   (source)
  • I beckoned for her to come out.†   (source)
  • Everyone was uneasy at being beckoned into the unknown.†   (source)
  • Zeus beckoned Artemis forward.†   (source)
  • She waved, cigarette in hand, beckoning him over.†   (source)
  • Eventually the man picks up his helmet, slips it on, beckons to the woman, and seats her on his motorcycle.†   (source)
  • In return, Tiurin had only to lift an eyebrow or beckon with a finger--and you ran and did what he wanted.†   (source)
  • Warm rooms and warm suppers beckoned them, and as they hurried away, leaving the cold square to the two gray cats, the miraculous autumn departed too; the year's first snow began to fall.†   (source)
  • He lowered his gun and beckoned her toward the staircase.†   (source)
  • After a time Khanum Shaheen ventured out into the hall-way and beckoned for me to come into the office.†   (source)
  • His eyes swept the crowd and found the Mirror Maze, the empty oblivion which beckoned with ten times a thousand million light years of reflections, counterreflections,, reversed and double-reversed, plunging deep to nothing, facefalling to nothing, stomach-dropping away to yet more sickening plummets of nothing.†   (source)
  • I looked up and saw a white man, beckoning me to come to the glass.†   (source)
  • In the distance a beautiful island covered with palm trees and flowers beckoned invitingly from the sparkling water.†   (source)
  • Cecil beckons me forward with one hand.†   (source)
  • Her other hand lifted and she curled her finger, beckoning Heath.†   (source)
  • The girl had tucked herself behind a tree, not hiding, but also not beckoning me forward.†   (source)
  • The furthest line was big Unaka, but this passionate lover of her native highlands gave it neither thought nor glance, as she tramped steadily with lifted face, following unconsciously the beckoning finger of Fate.†   (source)
  • He beckoned to Artkin.†   (source)
  • When my Miss Finnegan would finally appear and beckon, I would trail her to her office, where we would sit awkwardly for a few minutes.†   (source)
  • She beckons me with her hand.†   (source)
  • "Come up here," Manzoor said, delighted, beckoning Mortenson onto the cluttered platform, next to a headless dummy, pierced with pins.†   (source)
  • The fork kept wiggling, beckoning.†   (source)
  • People got dressed up and went promenading along Elm Street, where the shops beckoned under the streetlights.†   (source)
  • Fires are something that seemed part of my childhood, and they beckoned to me that there was another side to life I hadn't seen.†   (source)
  • With that he picked up his lilies, and then with a beckoning wave of his hand went hopping and dancing along the path eastward, still singing loudly and nonsensically.†   (source)
  • The statues' left hands were outstretched in a gesture of warding; their right hands were held closer to the breast in a gesture of beckoning.†   (source)
  • When I began to hear other noises coming through the curtain—bells jingling on horse-drawn carts, the shouted voices of our bearers telling people, "Move out of the way," and the calls of street vendors beckoning customers to buy their joss sticks, candles, and other offerings that could be placed at the temple—I knew we had reached our destination.†   (source)
  • Kyle beckoned with the cupped fingers of his right hand.†   (source)
  • He rises and begins gathering his things to go home, looking out the window again, thinking of his lovely wife, his successful grown kids, and his retirement place in Saint Kitts, which more and more is beckoning to him.†   (source)
  • It was like he could beckon his drudge without even thinking about it—something he knew would freak Henry out.†   (source)
  • I started toward a door that led into the house, beckoning the others after me—then tripped over something.†   (source)
  • The three dark figures silently beckoned me to follow them.†   (source)
  • The naked women marching around the swimming pool, the corpses in the hearse rejoicing that she, too, was dead these were the down below she had feared and fled once before but which mysteriously beckoned her.†   (source)
  • And he beckons me over to his desk.†   (source)
  • She walked over to the door and beckoned him to join her outside.†   (source)
  • Like it's the most normal thing in the world for me to be at her concert and for her to have beckoned me into her sanctum.†   (source)
  • Teeleh raised his wings in victory and beckoned the waiting throngs that still clung to the trees.†   (source)
  • Some of its lights were on, and the grand old place beckoned them.†   (source)
  • I turned, seeing him beckon.†   (source)
  • Mau beckoned the child over and borrowed the new toy from him.†   (source)
  • On another mattress, two teenage girls in their underwear, both pregnant, motioned to you, beckoned, offering.†   (source)
  • The empathetic new Medusa had beckoned with generosity, and in his bitterness he had come running.†   (source)
  • She saw me then and seemed about to beckon me over to help her plead her case.†   (source)
  • "Bienvenida, hujja," La Madrina beckons in a voice hoarse with a vocation to the unfortunate.†   (source)
  • He handed the cup back to her with a special smile that beckoned friendship on the basis of the secret joke they now shared between them.†   (source)
  • He beckoned again.†   (source)
  • Hearing an urgent whisper behind him, he turned to see Lucia beckoning from the doorway.†   (source)
  • "Ger-a agh-agh allowee," she mumbled, beckoning me in and brushing aside the thick cobwebs that drooped from the ceiling.†   (source)
  • The attorney general crooks a finger, beckoning Louis Martin, a black newspaper publisher.†   (source)
  • My mother waves at me again, beckoning me toward freedom.†   (source)
  • (Beckoning) You wanna see?†   (source)
  • The familiar circle of blue light beckoned from above.†   (source)
  • The toilet beckons and my body responds, evacuating Chopin and undigested mac and cheese every which way imaginable.†   (source)
  • Kwang nodded, beckoning me to eat and drink.†   (source)
  • He beckoned to Luciana to join in.†   (source)
  • And there they rested till it came to high noon: and at noon Drinian looked up and saw the most beautiful lady he had ever seen; and she stood at the north side of the fountain and said no word but beckoned to the Prince with her hand as if she bade him come to her.†   (source)
  • Suddenly Still beckoned to Harriet.†   (source)
  • Something was beckoning to him.†   (source)
  • He beckoned to the scarred man and waved to Glazier Estabrook.†   (source)
  • He beckoned for Merle to follow but it was like Merle hadn't even noticed, just stood there kicking the side of that tire and making the poinsettias shake.†   (source)
  • I felt a momentary urge to beckon to her, perhaps have her try to escape with me.†   (source)
  • She beckoned to me and when I hesitated, she laughed.†   (source)
  • The growth on his neck beckoned him again.†   (source)
  • You know — retirement beckons.†   (source)
  • She lit candles and beckoned the lieutenant to follow.†   (source)
  • Today the blackberries bloomed and the dewberries beckoned and many folks went home to pick a few gallons for their home-baked cobblers.†   (source)
  • Ellie went willingly to the bed of any man who beckoned her, and since, at thirteen years, brutality was all she knew of masculine attention, she liked best the man who mistreated her the most.†   (source)
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  • She beckoned with her fork to the woods.   (source)
    beckoned = called to come nearer by using a hand gesture or a nod
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